Tim Hamilton Fashion Collection

Designer clothes Tim Hamilton said he was influenced by the Catherine Deneuve movie The Hunger. That meant there was an early eighties sensibility to the collection's draped tailoring and body conscious dresses. A copper red blouse with padded shoulders worn with high-waisted, tapered pants with sloping pockets in the same rich shade proved he has a sense for the bigger fashion picture, as did a black leotard with a second skin mini. But there were a few puzzlers in this modest show, like a pair of pants with fabric wings protruding from the pockets, and a scanty beaded bandeau top paired with black military fatigues. Who's the customer for those?


Hamilton lives and works in New York; he picked up the Swarovski Award for Menswear at the CFDAs this June. So it's a bit of a mystery why he's decided to show his nascent women's collection in Paris (his menswear presentation there in June received a somewhat cool reception from critics). Surely he'd have a bigger fan club cheering him on back home, and he might be better served by building the brand DNA before trying to make his mark on the world stage.